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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

PFLP-GC terror group says leader Talal Naji was arrested by Syrian authorities

2025-05-04

[IsraelTimes] Small terrorist faction, which was allied with ousted Assad regime, says it reached out to PA’s Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal ‘to request their urgent intervention’

Why on earth would the conquering Al Qaeda government listen to the PA unbelievers and inadequately pious Palestinian Muslim Brotherhooders about a bunch of PLO Communists who spent the last generation supporting the Baathist (Arab national socialist) Assad government?

Officials of a small Paleostinian terrorist group that was close to the ousted Syrian president, Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
, said their leader was arrested Saturday by the country’s new Islamist-led authorities.

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On the outs with Qatar, Hamas appears to change tack at the top, but not in Gaza

2024-11-18

[IsraelTimes] The terror group is said to be led by five top officials representing its various components, but experts say that its war strategy and red lines in talks are unlikely to shift

This month, 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...
announced the suspension of its mediation role between Israel and Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
concerning a potential Gazoo ceasefire and hostage release. At the same time, Doha refrained from confirming whether it would close Hamas’s office in the country, despite requests from the Biden administration to do so.

Qatar has hosted Hamas officials in Doha since 2012, when the terror group moved its headquarters out of Damascus amid the Syrian civil war; Washington had urged Qatar to serve as a conduit to the terror group, much as the Gulf state had done by hosting a Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
embassy.

Even if the group were expelled from Qatar, it’s not clear who the order would apply to, with Hamas’s leadership structure made suddenly opaque by the killings of its last two chiefs 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 Yahya Sinwar in recent months.

Following the losses, the terror group has reportedly opted against appointing an immediate successor. Instead, a five-member committee based in Doha is said to have taken over leadership responsibilities.

According to Hamas sources speaking to AFP, the committee was set up in August following the liquidation of Haniyeh in Tehran. While Sinwar was named head of the group, the fact that he was in hiding in Gaza made communication difficult, necessitating an alternative. When Israeli forces killed Sinwar on October 16, the quinquevirate stepped in.

The collective leadership structure could be a defensive strategy for Hamas, nominating five heads rather than a single chief who would immediately be in Israel’s crosshairs.

But the group also appears to want to present Paleostinians with an "inclusive" leadership committee, one that spans Gaza and the West Bank and includes both political and religious figures, as it navigates a period of profound crisis for its future.

"This appears to be mostly a symbolic decision to indicate that all components of Hamas are represented," said Hamas expert Guy Aviad, a former official in the IDF’s History Department, which maintains the military’s official annals.

"Joint leadership is not necessarily aimed at preventing assassinations. If Israel wanted to eliminate a number of leaders, it could do so," Aviad told The Times of Israel, adding that Israel is unlikely to conduct liquidations within Qatar or ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
The current governance structure will be in place until the terror group holds elections for a new leader, which are scheduled for March next year, according to AFP.

There is also speculation that Hamas may have already secretly appointed a new leader but is concealing his identity, a tactic used in 2004 after the assassinations of leaders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi within months of each other. A Hamas source told the BBC in October that the movement is likely to keep the identity of its new leader secret for security reasons.

PARTY OF FIVE
According to Hamas sources who spoke to AFP, the committee is composed of five politburo members:

Khalil al-Hayya: Previously Sinwar’s deputy, he currently acts as the liaison between Hamas in Gaza and abroad. He relocated to Qatar from Gaza shortly before the October 7 attack and is seen as a probable candidate to lead the organization in the future, chiefly because of his proximity to the Iranian regime.

Khaled Mashaal: Head of the foreign politburo abroad, he is the most well-known and experienced Hamas official alive, having led the politburo for 22 years between 1996 and 2017. Despite his credentials, he is not touted as a potential future leader — Yahya Sinwar himself reportedly rejected his candidacy. Mashaal has strained relations with Tehran, dating back to when he turned against Syrian President Bashar Assad, a close Iran ally, during the Syrian civil war. After Hamas was booted from Syria, Mashaal became persona non grata in Tehran as well, while most of the group’s politburo increasingly gravitated toward the Iranian regime. In early October, he met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Doha, where he currently resides, indicating a possible rapprochement.

Zaher Jabarin: In charge of Hamas in the West Bank since January, he lives in Istanbul and supervises the terror group’s finance department. Jabarin is believed to be behind attempts to revive Hamas’s strategy of suicide bombings against Israeli civilians in recent months. Israeli security officials indicated that an attempted suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in August had been overseen by Hamas in Turkey, suggesting Jabarin’s direct involvement in the plot.

Muhammad Ismail Darwish: Darwish heads Hamas’s Shura Council, a religious advisory body composed of about 50 clerics. Darwish was an unknown figure until reports in the Arab media in August claimed that he would succeed Haniyeh as the head of the terror group, though Sinwar got the nod in the end. Very little is known about him other than he lives in Qatar.

An unnamed fifth official: The identity of the fifth committee member is unknown, but it can be presumed that the group would appoint at least one member who is still inside the Gaza Strip. Michael Milshtein, head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, told The Times of Israel that an anonymous source close to Hamas named the figure as Nizar Awadullah, a politburo member who was a runner up to Sinwar in internal elections in 2021. Awadullah is thought to still be living in the Strip.

Notably absent from the list is Yahya Sinwar’s brother Muhammad, considered to be the de facto commander-in-chief of military operations in Gaza, where he is believed to be. (Israel says it killed titular armed wing head Mohammed Deif.)

According to experts, Muhammad Sinwar is not a political figure, making him an unlikely choice for the leadership council. Nonetheless, he still wields sizable influence within Hamas thanks to his control of Hamas’s forces in Gaza and of the Israeli hostages.

STAYING THE COURSE
The ability of the leadership quintet to influence actions within Gaza remains uncertain due to ongoing communications difficulties between the Strip and the rest of the world. The IDF’s monitoring of mobile communications complicates Hamas’s coordination, leading the group to rely on encryption technology or hard-to-come-by satellite phones.

Despite the difficulties in communication, it appears that for the time being the new leadership has not enacted any major shifts in its strategy, whether on the military front or in negotiations for a ceasefire deal.

On the battlefield, experts expect the group to continue fighting a war of attrition against the Israeli military until there is an agreement that meets its conditions: an open-ended halt to hostilities, a full withdrawal of IDF troops from the Gaza Strip, the release of Palestinian detainees in return for hostages, and guarantees that it will not be wiped out after the hostages are freed.

Until those demands are met, the group is expected to keep conducting guerrilla operations with what forces it has left, while hanging onto the hostages both as a bargaining chip and a cudgel, “deepening the wound inside Israeli society” and the fracture between citizens and their political leaders, Aviad said.

“Hamas will not change its principles and will not accept a deal that diverges from its conditions,” he said. “Right now, it is in a win-win situation: if it gets its way in negotiations, all the better. If not, it will keep embittering the lives of Israelis, to hold the hostages captive and spill the blood of soldiers and reservists.”

The only area where the joint leadership might show some flexibility is in the details of a ceasefire deal, Milshtein said.

To advance negotiations, it might agree to a staged IDF pullout, with some troops remaining after some hostages were released, but the leadership committee won’t back off the demand for all IDF troops to leave Gaza by a final stage, the expert said. Under Sinwar, the terror group had already shown some flexibility on the timing of the IDF withdrawal.

A PARTIAL BREAKUP WITH HAMAS
Experts concur that the expulsion of Hamas leaders from Qatar currently seems unlikely – similar rumors have circulated before.

The Gulf petrostate has temporarily pulled back its involvement on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, but it benefits greatly from its role mediating between the US and groups Washington finds too odious to engage with directly. Doha is unlikely to risk surrendering that prestigious position, and will probably resume its mediating role on Gaza at some point in the future, Aviad said.

However, things might change under President-elect Donald Trump, whose administration may seek to flex its muscles in the Middle East.

Qatar’s recent suspension of mediation could signal its nervousness about Trump, Milshtein suggested, particularly recalling the country’s isolation during the 2017-2021 boycott by Saudi Arabia and four other Arab states.

It may also be a tactic to put pressure on Hamas and demand more flexibility while the getting is good.

“Doha knows that once Trump becomes president, it will be much tougher for them to mediate between the parties,” Milshtein said, referring to the pro-Israel slant that the Trump administration is expected to follow.

However, it will take “enormous pressure” for Qatar to ultimately expel Hamas, Milshtein said. For instance, the Pentagon could threaten to pull out of Qatar’s al-Udeid air base, the largest US military installation in the Middle East.

International pressure of this type has worked in the past. The Saudi-led boycott is considered to be the catalyst for Qatar’s expulsion of senior Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in 2017. Al-Arouri was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut at the beginning of the year.

“The Qataris know how to be more flexible and take steps when they are under pressure,” Milshtein said. “But I don’t think right now that pressure is enough.”

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Who’s next? Speculation swirls on who will take over Hamas from slain Sinwar

2024-10-19

[IsraelTimes] Among reported prominent contenders are terror chief’s younger brother Muhammad and current head of political bureau Mashaal; leadership expected to be taken up abroad

The killing of Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
leader Yahya Sinwar in 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 a rusty 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 has left the Paleostinian terror group in need of a new chief, with various reports Friday speculating about who could fill the gap.

A Hamas source told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that talks are being held in the group to select a new leader.

According to Israel’s Kan public broadcaster, a senior Hamas official told Asharq al-Awsat that Sinwar’s death would have a great influence on the Gaza-ruling terror group, which now faces "a new stage."

Other sources said that with Sinwar no longer in the picture, Hamas decision-making will now be made by remaining leaders abroad, which could also expedite long-stalled talks for a ceasefire and hostage deal.

Sources in the Israeli defense establishment doubt that anyone can successfully replace Sinwar, a report on Israel’s Walla website said.

Sinwar, the architect of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 invasion, slaughter and mass abduction in southern Israel, was killed on Wednesday in an exchange of fire with IDF forces in Gaza’s Rafah, after emerging from a hiding place in the Strip’s underground tunnels. The troops in the area did not specifically target him and did not know they had killed him until approaching the body hours after the firefight. Israel definitively identified him on Thursday evening.

Sinwar had been the Hamas leader in Gaza for many years, but took control of the entire organization barely two months ago following the liquidation of previous 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...
in Tehran, allegedly by Israel.

KHALED MASHAAL
One seemingly obvious contender is former Hamas political bureau leader Khaled Mashaal, who resides 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...
Mashaal has been deeply involved in mediated talks between Israel and Hamas during the ongoing war, and has been a prominent Hamas leader for decades.

Israel famously tried to assassinate him in Jordan in the 1990s, but the Mossad poisoning operation was botched when the agents were arrested, forcing Jerusalem to hand over to Jordanian authorities an antidote in exchange for their release.

On Thursday, Lebanese news channel LBCI claimed that Mashaal would be the acting leader of Hamas until a replacement for Sinwar is appointed. Mashaal would also be responsible for communications with mediators in talks for the release of the hostages, the channel added.

That report had received no confirmation as of Friday.

MUHAMMAD SINWAR
Several outlets mentioned Sinwar’s younger brother Muhammad Sinwar, who is a senior commander in the terror group’s military wing. The younger Sinwar is also wanted for terror actions against Israel and has been active in Hamas for decades. He was tossed in the calaboose
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by Israel in the 1990s for nine months and spent an additional three years in a Paleostinian Authority prison in Ramallah, from which he escaped in 2000.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
the Ynet news site claimed that Muhammad is not considered the likely replacement as overall Hamas chief. The younger Sinwar may take over Hamas in the Gaza Strip, though he could face a challenge for the role from prominent commander Az al-Din Haddad, it said.

According to Channel 13, Israel has tried to assassinate Muhammad Sinwar five times. The IDF on Thursday said it is actively searching for him in the Gaza Strip along with other remaining Hamas commanders.

OTHER MILITARY WING COMMANDERS
The Walla outlet also mentioned two more senior Hamas military wing commanders as possible successors to Sinwar: Haddad, and Rafah Brigade commander Muhammad Shabana. Shabana was reportedly killed by Israel recently, though his death has not been confirmed.

KHALIL AL-HAYYA
Another name touted by the Ynet news site was senior Hamas politburo official Khalil al-Hayya, who is also in Qatar.

A Gazook source described al-Hayya’s standing in the Hamas political bureau as significant, adding that he was considered one of the few people whom Sinwar felt he could rely on.

OTHER POLITBURO OFFICIALS
In addition, Ynet mentioned two other senior Hamas political officials: Mousa Abu Marzouk, and head of the Hamas Shura Council Muhammad Ismail Darwish, who had been touted as a candidate to take over as Hamas leader after Haniyeh’s liquidation.

The IDF killed Sinwar during operations amid the ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The war began when the terror group led a devastating cross-border attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and during which turbans kidnapped 251 people who were taken as hostages to Gaza.

Israel’s military response is aimed at destroying Hamas and saving the hostages.

A successor to Sinwar will face the challenge of guiding policy regarding internationally mediated talks for a ceasefire in exchange for the release of hostages. The US and Israel accused Sinwar of deliberately shying away from reaching an agreement on a truce, refusing to compromise on hardline demands that were unacceptable to Israel.

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‘Megalomaniac’ Sinwar ordered renewal of suicide bombings after taking power – report

2024-10-10

[IsraelTimes] WSJ says some Hamas officials have reservations about tactic but haven’t spoken up, as terror chief said to talk about the war and his role in ‘increasingly grandiose terms’

Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
leader Yahya Sinwar, increasingly viewed as a "megalomaniac" by bigwigs in the terror group, ordered commanders in the West Bank to renew suicide kabooms in Israel shortly after he replaced the slain 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...
as head of the organization’s politburo, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

The order was given shortly before a failed suicide kaboom in Tel Aviv in August, the report said, citing unnamed Arab intelligence officials.

Some senior Hamas members reportedly had reservations about the decision, but have not been speaking up on the matter since Sinwar took power.

Paleostinian suicide kabooms targeting Israeli civilians were commonplace during the bloody Second Intifada in the early 2000s, killing hundreds of Israelis, as well as in the 1990s, but have become rare since Israel built a security barrier around the West Bank and boosted its intelligence-gathering methods to thwart the bombers.

The Journal report also confirmed previous reports that Sinwar has recently renewed contact with ceasefire-and-hostage deal mediators, citing unnamed Arab officials involved in the negotiations.

The outlet said it viewed a handwritten letter by Sinwar from last month in which the terror chief said Hamas is ready for a prolonged war of attrition to "break Israel’s will" and pave the way for the nation’s demise.

The report said the letter quoted the Koran: "And they ask, ’When will that be?’ Say, ’Perhaps it will be soon.’"

The Journal painted a picture in which Sinwar is an bad boy figure even among the ranks of a Paleostinian terror group avowedly dedicated to destroying Israel, having refused last year to travel out 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 a rusty 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...
for reconciliation talks with rival Paleostinian factions due to fears Haniyeh would unseat him during this time.

The report cited unnamed current and former Arab and Israeli officials who said Sinwar surprised even other Hamas members overseas with the timing of the October 7, 2023, onslaught.

This prompted Hamas officials 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...
to privately call Sinwar a "megalomaniac," the report said, adding that Sinwar has recently been talking about the current war and his own role in it in "increasingly grandiose terms."

After Haniyeh’s liquidation in July — blamed on Israel, though Jerusalem has not confirmed or denied its involvement — Hamas political officials had reportedly suggested former leader Khaled Mashaal as his successor, before the Sinwar-led military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, sent a message that Sinwar must be picked.

Sinwar spent decades in an Israeli prison after being convicted in 1989 of conducting the kidnapping and execution of two Israeli soldiers.

Known as the "Butcher from Khan Younis" due to his enthusiastic execution of Paleostinians alleged to have collaborated with Israel, Sinwar was released from jail as part of the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas.

Always considered a hardliner within Hamas, he is infamous for his key role in founding Hamas’s military wing and security services, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam brigades and Majd, which committed numerous terror attacks against Israelis prior to October 7.

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Oct. 7 Anniversary: Hamas Leader Wants ‘New Fronts’ of Jihad

2024-10-09

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Leader of #Hamas Abroad Khaled Mashal on Anniversary of October 7 Attack: Our Losses Are Tactical Whereas Our Enemy’s Losses Are Strategic; Jihad with Money Is No Longer Enough, Muslims Should Wage Jihad with Weapons pic.twitter.com/zzuJ8E6FZ8
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) October 7, 2024

[PJMedia] To all those delusional individuals who still think that Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
and its Gazook supporters will ever agree to peaceful arbitration, think again. In characteristic form, a Hamas leader just called for an expansion of Jihad at the international level.

Hamas, with the financial incentivizing of the Paleostinian Authority and the support of the majority of Gazooks, plans to wage terrorism on Israel until it is completely wiped off the map. Oct. 7, as horrific and deadly as it was, presents a preview of what Hamas would like to do to all Israelis. As the latest refutation of idiotic Westerners’ claims that giving Paleostinians more land and money will make them stop fighting, Memri reported that a Hamas leader has ambitious plans for expanding jihad ("holy war" in Islam) on the international level as the "duty of Jihad."

Khaled Mashal,

…also in our archives spelt Khaled Mashaal …

leader of Hamas abroad, delivered an Oct. 7, 2024, address aired on the 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...
i state media al-Jazeera Network. Memri provided a translation, and as usual Hamas is entirely open about its genocidal goals. Mashal said, "Our losses are tactical, whereas our enemy's losses are strategic. This is a fact. Our losses are tactical — pain and death, which is martyrdom." Moslems refer to eliminated faceless myrmidons as deaders.

"We are suffering, but it is all for the sake of Allah," bragged Mashal. "Today, we are making tremendous and painful sacrifices, but they will lead to great horizons, inshallah." Islamic holy texts encourage the killing of non-Moslems, especially Jews. "The enemy is losing its strategic path, and is accelerating its certain annihilation. It has lost on all levels. In addition, all Moslem and non-Moslem nations, throughout history, had to pay steep prices," Mashal added.

This is an interesting point, because Islam has been spreading for centuries by weaponizing war, rape, torture, and terrorism. In fact, Oct. 7 is the anniversary of the 1571 Battle of Lepanto, a great victory for Christian forces against invading Moslems, now commemorated in the Catholic Church as the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (to whom the Christians prayed). Thanks to Lepanto’s fighters, Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
was saved. Islam has been the same for over a thousand years; always trying to take over Christian and Jewish nations by violence.

Mashal eagerly declared, "The resistance axis has joined us, and we are thankful for that, but today, the rest of the forces of our nation need to do two things: They should open new fronts for the resistance. This is the duty of Jihad. The second thing is that we need to open new political and legal fronts. We should persecute this entity on the international level." So much for the pro-Hamas United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
’ assertions that if Israel would give Gazooks much of their land, including Jerusalem, peace would prevail.

And as for the "two-state solution," so touted by the Biden-Harris administration and others, that was tried. Jordan was arbitrarily created as an Arab state out of land that rightfully should belong to Israel, and Jordanians promptly launched war on Israel in 1948. Giving Arabs 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 a rusty 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 also just provided yet another base for terrorist operations. As a different Hamas leader said last year, the faceless myrmidons are prepared to commit the Oct. 7 atrocities "again and again" to annihilate Israel.

Mashal said, "Jihad by money is great, but it is no longer enough. We want Jihad with weapons and the [sacrifice] of lives. We should open additional fronts. The enemy is fighting us everywhere, and we should fight it the way it fights us." When faceless myrmidons state genocidal goals, believe them.

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Mashaal claims Hamas will rise ‘like a phoenix’ despite Gaza battlefield loses

2024-10-08

Posted for its amusement value.

[IsraelTimes] Speaking from Qatar, senior terror leader warns of ‘ticking time bomb’ in Mideast ‘as long as the occupation exists’; Hamas military spox hails ‘successful’ Oct. 7 attack, ‘humiliating defeat’ of IDF

Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
leader Khaled Mashaal said the Paleostinian terror group would rise "like a phoenix" from the ashes despite heavy losses during a year of war with Israel, and that it continues to recruit fighters and manufacture weapons.

One year after the devastating Hamas attack that triggered the war, the 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...
-based Mashaal framed the conflict with Israel as part of a broader narrative spanning 76 years, dating back to what Paleostinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe," of the Jewish state’s founding in 1948.

"Paleostinian history is made of cycles," Mashaal, 68, a senior Hamas figure under overall leader Yahya Sinwar, told Rooters in an interview.

"We go through phases where we lose deaders (victims) and we lose part of our military capabilities, but then the Paleostinian spirit rises again, like the phoenix, thanks to God."

Mashaal, who survived an Israeli liquidation attempt in 1997 after he was injected with poison and was overall Hamas leader from 1996-2017, said the Islamist terror group was still able to mount ambushes against Israeli troops.

Hamas also fired four missiles at central Israel on Monday morning, the anniversary of the October 7 atrocities, in which Paleostinian forces of Evil killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and seized 251 hostages.

"We lost part of our ammunition and weapons, but Hamas is still recruiting young men and continues to manufacture a significant portion of its ammunition and weapons," said Mashaal, without providing details.

Oh? Do go on.

Mashaal remains influential in Hamas because he has played a crucial role in its leadership for almost three decades, and is widely seen now as its diplomatic face. His comments appear intended as a signal that the terrorist group will fight on whatever its losses, Middle East analysts said.

"Overall I would say (Hamas is) alive and kicking still and ... will probably come back at some point 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 a rusty 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...
," said Joost R. Hiltermann, Middle East and North Africa Program Director of the International Crisis Group. He said Israel had not spelled out a plan for Gaza when the war ends, and this could allow Hamas to re-establish itself although perhaps not with such strength or in the same form.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office declined comment on Mashaal’s remarks.

"As long as the occupation exists, the region remains a ticking time bomb," Mashaal warned.

Also Monday, the front man of the Hamas’s military wing, known only as Abu Obeida, gave a speech praising the attack the terror group carried out one year ago, and the unity of the fronts opened by Iran-backed proxy organizations across the Middle East against Israel over the past 12 months. He further called for "military, financial and logistical support" as well as media campaigns against Israel.

And was he standing in front of a cheering crowd in the fresh air and sunshine when he spoke, or was he hiding in a dank hole in the ground somewhere, surrounded by 10/7 hostages and praying that the Israelis weren’t already on their way with their robots and their dogs?

Abu Obeida also discussed the hostages still in Gaza, and said that it would be "unreasonable" for Hamas to kill them, but that dozens of them may be held in captivity for a long time and may never be returned.

That also is unreasonable. They have to be fed for no return, if they aren’t traded for something, and they’re only useful as human shields until suddenly they aren’t.

"The fate of the hostages is tied to the actions of their government," Abu Obeida said. "The longer [the military operation in Gaza] persists, the greater the risk to the hostages."

Abu Obeida boasted that October 7 was "the most professional and successful commando operation in the modern era,"

…not at all professional, no — and given what Gaza looks like now, and the number of dead and maimed Hamasniks, not any kind of success, either…

and added that it inflicted a "humiliating defeat" on the IDF. He made the baseless allegation that it was a "preemptive strike" to avert a major operation planned by Israel against Hamas in Gaza.

It rather looks like Israel pulled off a major operation against Hamas thereafter. You’re batting a perfect goose egg, bro.

The front man claimed that October 7 was a response to alleged Israeli violations at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, the expansion of settlements, abuses against Paleostinian security prisoners, and the blockade of the Gaza Strip.

And yet Israel has even tighter control of the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa, there are many more Palestinian security prisoners, and the blockade of Gaza is even tighter. Your win is looking awfully Pyrrhic.

He addressed Hezbollah, saying: "We are confident in your steadfastness and courage in inflicting heavy losses on the forces of the Zionist enemy, as the martyr His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
promised."

Forty-one thousand dead Gazans vs a couple hundred dead Israelis. I know y’all want to die for your god but this level of lopsided suggests your god doesn’t like you at all.

The terror leader also mentioned Maher al-Jazi, the Jordanian citizen who carried out a shooting attack at the Allenby Bridge Crossing on September 8 in which three Israeli citizens were killed, saying that he opened an "authentic Jordanian front" in addition to the existing ones.

One example does not a front make.

Abu Obeida lashed at the US for supporting Israel, and claimed that Islamist terror operatives in the Gaza Strip, from Hamas and other factions, "persist in their steadfastness and their heroic fighting in every inch of the Strip."

True….

Commenting on the recent killing of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, Abu Obeida said that "the policy of liquidations of our leaders is a good outcome, a sign of victory for us, and a source of regret and disappointment for the aggressors."

I’m pretty sure Israel doesn’t regret those deaths one bit.

"A leader is succeeded by 10, and a fighter by a thousand," he added. "This land produces resistance fighters as it produces olives."

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Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Surrounds Self With 25Kg Dynamite, 20 Hostages To Stop Israel From Killing Him, Contacts Qatar

2024-10-08

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Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Surrounds Self With 25Kg Dynamite, 20 Hostages To Stop Israel From Killing Him –Report | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/2IssQ6pKDN pic.twitter.com/XJBn71UtF0
— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) October 7, 2024

After speculation he was killed, Sinwar said to renew contact with Qatar

[IsraelTimes] Hamas leader reportedly has not softened stance during absence, is said to be surrounded by at least 20 hostages, carried 25 kg of dynamite in sole footage of him since Oct. 7

Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
leader Yahya Sinwar has reestablished contact with hostage-ceasefire deal mediators 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...
after weeks of silence that had stirred speculation he might have been killed in an Israeli strike 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 a rusty 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...
, according to multiple reports Monday.

Sinwar cut off contact because he believed Israel was uninterested in reaching a deal, unnamed sources with knowledge of the negotiations told the Channel 12 news site.

A senior Israeli official told the Walla news site it does not seem that Sinwar has in any way softened his positions on a hostage-and-ceasefire deal. Hamas has demanded a complete withdrawal of the military from Gaza and a permanent end to the war, while Israel has refused any arrangement that would allow the terror group to retain control of the Strip and rebuild its military strength.

Further dampening hopes for a deal, Channel 12 reported Sunday that Qatari officials had told hostage families that Israel’s "policy of liquidations" against terror group leaders is "incompatible" with reaching a deal.

"In the past, there was [former Hamas leader Ismail] Haniyeh and he was eliminated. Now there is Khaled Mashaal and he is much more difficult than Haniyeh," the officials told the hostage families, according to the report.

Haniyeh was killed in Tehran in July, in an liquidation blamed on Israel, though Jerusalem has not confirmed or denied its involvement.

The New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported Saturday that Sinwar’s long-running assessment that he will not survive the Gaza war has strengthened in recent weeks and that he believes a regional war would force Israel to scale back operations in Gaza — potentially precluding the need to release hostages to secure a ceasefire in the embattled Strip.

Channel 12 said Friday that government ministers have largely put the hostage issue on the back burner, as Israel has stepped up its attacks on Hezbollah in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
over the past two weeks in a bid to stem the Iran-backed terror group’s incessant rocket attacks on the north.

Sinwar’s former Shin Bet security service interrogator told The Daily Mail on Monday that the Hamas leader was carrying 25 kilograms (some 55 pounds) of dynamite in footage of him walking through a tunnel days after the October 7 massacre.

The footage, released by the Israel Defense Forces in February, showed Sinwar walking through a Gaza tunnel with several of his family members and was the first and only publicized visual of the terror leader in the wake of October 7.

Kobi Michael also claimed that Sinwar had surrounded himself with "at least 20 hostages."

"A few times we have had the chance to kill him, but if we do, he will kill all the hostages around him," he said, predicting that Sinwar would never surrender, and is "dreaming" about remaining as the leader of Hamas and ruler of Gaza.

"He’s thinking now about the next massacre. That man must be killed," Michael said.

It is believed that 97 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.

Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.

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Qatari officials said to tell hostage families Sinwar no longer calling them, but is alive

2024-10-06

[IsraelTimes] Qatari officials mediating hostage deal talks with Hamas told the families of captives last week that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was no longer calling them, Channel 12 reports.

The Qataris said Sinwar was now only communicating with a pen and paper — a decision made after a series of assassinations that took out Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s leadership

…that poor, terrified man. He’s going to die exhausted…

— which poses a challenge to their mediation efforts, the report says.

The officials also told the families that it is likely Sinwar has surrounded himself with hostages, and dispelled speculation that he may have been killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to the report.

“Israel has adopted a policy of assassinations that is incompatible with the deal. In the past, there was [former Hamas leader Ismail] Haniyeh and he was eliminated. Now there is Khaled Mashaal and he is much more difficult than Haniyeh,” the officials told the hostage families, Channel 12 reports.

The location of the meeting was not immediately clear.

Haniyeh was killed in Tehran in July, in an assassination blamed on Israel, though Jerusalem has not confirmed or denied its involvement.

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West Bank: Commander of the Nablus Battalion of the Islamic Jihad, Abdel Hakim Shahin, no longer requires oxygen

2024-10-02

[X] Israel’s relentless, near-nightly raids since — and before — 10/7 is the reason why the West Bank did not rise up in revolt simultaneous with either the Hamas massacre or the Hezbollah as their Iranian paymasters had planned. Sucks for them.

Successfully Eliminated by the IDF: Commander of the Nablus Battalion of the Islamic Jihad, Abdel Hakim Shahin.

Good riddance. Hell awaits. pic.twitter.com/Jwp5vjDZE6
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) October 1, 2024

Four soldiers injured, one seriously in Nablus firefight

[IsraelTimes] 3 other members of Duvdevan unit moderately hurt during battle, gunman killed ; terror operative slain amid series of raids across West Bank, 6 suspects arrested

A commando was seriously wounded during clashes in the West Bank overnight, the Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday, and three other troops in the Duvdevan unit were moderately hurt in a firefight in the Balata refugee camp adjacent to Nablus in the northern West Bank.

Troops had been attempting to make an arrest at a building in the camp as part of an operation that began Sunday night, when they were fired on from inside. One gunman was killed and another wounded, according to the IDF.

Forces found IEDs, a pistol, ammunition, and weapons parts in civilian buildings in the area, including a cafe and stores, the statement said.

Elsewhere, the army said, troops killed a Palestinian accused by Israel of planning and carrying out attacks on troops in the area. A statement from the army said Abed Shaheen had recently attempted to put together a cell to attack soldiers near Nablus. During the operation security forces seized weapons used by the gunman, the statement said. The Palestinian Authority health ministry confirmed Shaheen’s death and said he was 33.

Six suspects were arrested during overnight raids in the northern West Bank town of Silwad, the army said.

Troops also operated in the towns of Dayr Ibzi’ and Kafr Ni’ma and two guns were found in the town of Bani Naim, the IDF said.

The Israeli military intensified its near-daily raids across the West Bank in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 attack, in operations aimed at dismantling Palestinian terror groups including Hamas.

Since October 7, troops have arrested some 5,250 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, more than 716 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 33 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.

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Little-known Hamas leader seen behind resurgence of West Bank suicide bombings

2024-09-22

[IsraelTimes] Analysts say Istanbul-based Zaher Jabarin, now in charge of West Bank terror activity, seeking to prove mettle with return to high-profile attacks

In late August, former Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
chief Khaled Mashaal delivered a speech in which he declared the terror group’s intent to revive suicide kabooms by West Bank Paleostinians against Israelis.

Over the next four days, a pair of boom-mobiles went off in a West Bank settlement bloc south of Jerusalem and a suspected third one was neutralized at the entrance to another settlement north of Ramallah. Weeks earlier, a jacket wallah walking the streets of Tel Aviv was killed when the bomb he carried in his backpack detonated by accident.

Though relatively ineffectual — four Israelis suffered non-life threatening wounds — the bombings still managed to send a fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
signal that the terror group was attempting to flip the calendar back two decades to the days when suicide kabooms were its hallmark.

At the forefront of orchestrating these attacks is Zaher Jabarin, Hamas’s newly appointed leader in the West Bank, analysts say.

Jabarin assumed the position following the liquidation of his predecessor, Saleh al-Arouri, in Beirut in early January.

Based in Istanbul, Jabarin remains a lesser-known figure among Hamas’s senior command, though his background mirrors that of more prominent leaders such as Yahya Sinwar and al-Arouri.

Born in Salfit in the central West Bank in 1969, Jabarin joined a then-fledgling Hamas in the late 1980s, playing a crucial role in expanding the group’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, into the northern West Bank.

He was arrested by Israeli forces in 1993 and sentenced to life imprisonment, but was later among over 1,000 Paleostinian prisoners released in the 2011 deal to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from captivity 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 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...
Like Sinwar and al-Arouri, Jabarin is fluent in Hebrew thanks to the nearly two decades he spent in Israeli prison, and he is thought to possess a deep understanding of Israeli society. But in contrast to them, Jabarin, who was exiled to Syria, has remained largely behind the scenes and is unknown by most Israelis.

"Unlike Sinwar or al-Arouri, Jabarin is not viewed as particularly sophisticated or charismatic within Hamas, nor as a clever or brave leader," said Michael Milshtein, head of the Forum for Paleostinian Studies at the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University. "This makes him eager to prove his capabilities, especially in light of the legacy of his predecessor."

From his base in Istanbul, Jabarin is believed to be orchestrating a new wave of suicide kabooms from the West Bank, seeking to strike at Israel’s core as its capabilities in Gaza have been heavily reduced. While no boom-mobiles or suicide attacks have been reported for the past two weeks, experts believe that the wave has not ended.

Does he have a cell phone? a pager? laptop? microwave? toaster? Does he know any nice squirrels? It recently became much more interesting to be an anti-Zionist jihadi than it used to be…

Suicide attacks were a hallmark of Hamas operations in the 1990s and early 2000s, with Jabarin himself recruiting the notorious Yahya Ayyash, known as "the Engineer." An expert bombmaker responsible for multiple deadly attacks in the mid-1990s, Ayyash was assassinated by Israel in 1996.

In the years since the end of the Second Intifada, Hamas appeared to move away from a focus on bombings, which require sophisticated planning and organization to carry out, though there have still been sporadic attacks with explosives.

In the last decades, the group has concentrated on building up its rocket capabilities and underground fortifications in Gaza and on shooting, ramming and knife attacks from the West Bank.

According to Milshtein, Jabarin’s turn back toward bombings comes amid frustration within Hamas over West Bank Paleostinians’ failure since October 7 to join in the fight against Israel.

"Since the first day of the war, Yahya Sinwar has repeatedly called for opening a second front in the West Bank," he said. "Yet despite nearly a year of conflict in Gaza, the West Bank has remained relatively calm. There’s now pressure to show that Hamas in the West Bank can contribute to the broader effort."

Israeli officials believe Jabarin was responsible for dispatching Hamas operative Jaafar Muna from Nablus to Tel Aviv on August 18 with a large bomb intended for a suicide attack, according to veteran Arab affairs commentator Yoni Ben Menachem, a senior analyst for the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs.

Following the failed Tel Aviv bombing, Hamas shared propaganda posters on social media featured posters depicting Ayyash’s image alongside bombed-out buses with the slogan: "Who will restore Ayyash’s glory?"

While the three attempted bombings in August were the first to come close to succeeding in years, the threat has never really subsided, experts say.

"The motivation and capacity for these operations never went away, as evidenced by the discovery of multiple explosive factories by the IDF in the West Bank over the years," said Guy Aviad, a Hamas expert and a former IDF historian. "Fortunately, many were thwarted."

MONEY MAN WITH A NOD FROM ERDOGAN
Jabarin’s influence extends beyond military operations. As the longtime head of Hamas’s Financial Bureau, which like him is based in ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
, he controls millions of dollars that are funneled into terrorist activities, particularly in the West Bank.

After his release in 2011, Jabarin was exiled to Syria, then in the throes of civil war. Like other Hamas leaders who decamped from Damascus, Jabarin spent years living between 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 Turkey, ultimately settling in Istanbul.

There, he assumed leadership of the Financial Bureau and acted as deputy to al-Arouri, who lived in Istanbul until 2016.

Under Jabarin’s management, the department has invested substantial sums in Ottoman Turkish real estate and stock markets,

…all sorts of potential for Mossad shenanigans there…

while laundering profits through a network of money changers in Turkey, Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, and the Gulf, Aviad said.

These funds are then channeled to Hamas operatives in the West Bank and Gaza, Aviad said.

Hamas also benefits from donations collected by Widows & Orphans Ammunition Fund organizations based in Europe, North America, and other parts of the world.

Hamas’s lucrative financial operations in Turkey have flourished with the tacit approval of the Ottoman Turkish government under President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
"You cannot run a Hamas office in Turkey without government consent," Aviad noted.

Turkey’s willingness to harbor Hamas leaders has long been a major point of contention affecting ties between Ankara and Jerusalem. In December, Turkey reportedly warned Israel of "serious consequences" if it targeted Hamas operatives on Ottoman Turkish soil.

With Erdogan’s protection, Hamas can operate largely freely in Turkey, where the group has situated some of its most vital branches.

Before Jabarin, al-Arouri was thought to have directed and helped finance terror activity in the West Bank from Turkey, including the 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens, which sparked a large Israeli crackdown in the West Bank and a devastating war in Gaza.

In addition to Hamas’s Financial Bureau, Turkey also hosts part of the terror group’s technological arm, responsible for developing military capabilities for Hamas units in the Paleostinian territories. (The other part is in Lebanon.)

According to a 2021 report by the Alma Research Center, a note from a Hamas cell revealed that hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros transited through this bureau using money changers and were intended for use in training camps and to conduct a sniper course.

As Hamas suffers heavy losses in Gaza, experts predict that Jabarin’s position within Hamas will grow in importance, particularly as he pushes to rekindle high-profile suicide kabooms from the West Bank.

"One year ago, he was not at the top echelons," said Milshtein. "But today, I’d say he is one of the top five leaders of Hamas, especially after the death of Muhammad Deif, Marwan Issa, 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 Saleh al-Arouri. He is the one responsible for the second most important arena after Gaza. He has become very prominent."

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Hamas’s latest claims of responsibility indicate resumption of suicide attacks

2024-09-05

Trying for Intifada III.

[IsraelTimes] For the first time in nearly two decades, Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
has started using the term "suicide kabooms" with regard to its latest terror bombings.

In its latest claim of responsibility following a dual boom-mobileing in the Gush Etzion area on Friday, Hamas praised the two perpetrators, Hebron residents Muhammad Ihsan Marqa and Zuhdi Abu Afifa, and announced "the first martyrdom operations in the Hebron governorate," employing the term commonly used in Arabic for suicide attacks.

In its statement, the terror group vowed to deliver further "painful surprises" throughout the West Bank.

The twin boom-mobileing came two days after top Hamas official Khaled Mashaal called for a resumption of suicide kabooms in the West Bank, as the terror group comes under heavy military pressure 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 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...
On August 18, a few days before Mashaal’s speech, Hamas and the 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...
had claimed an intended suicide kaboom in Tel Aviv. The attacker died when his backpack went kaboom!, and a passerby was injured. The joint statement by the two terror groups referred to the operation as a suicide kaboom.

Hamas championed this type of attacks for years, and conducted them throughout the 1990s and through the end of the Second Intifada in the early 2000s, but they have been rare in the years since.

According to government sources, the latest suicide kaboom claimed by Hamas inside Israel was in a shopping center in the southern city of Dimona in February 2008, in which a woman was killed and 38 were maimed.

Another suicide attack was carried out by a member of Hamas’s military wing on a bus in Jerusalem in April 2016, in which 21 were maimed. The group did not officially claim the operation at the time.

Experts indicate that multiple attempts to carry out suicide kabooms were foiled in recent years.

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Car bomb outside West Bank settlement neutralized by cops

2024-09-03

[IsraelTimes] Police say tinted windows on suspicious vehicle near Ateret made explosives hard to see, days after two car bombs exploded in southern West Bank

An abandoned car laden with explosives was neutralized by security forces at the entrance to a West Bank settlement on Monday, authorities said.

The attempted attack occurred with Israeli security officials in the West Bank and elsewhere on high alert following a twin car-kaboom Friday night, with the Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
terror group urging more such blasts.

Troops taking part in a routine patrol in the area were scrambled to the entrance of the Ateret settlement in the central West Bank Monday morning after the army received a report of a suspicious-looking vehicle near the community, the IDF spokesperson said.

Military forces initially had trouble determining what was inside the vehicle due to its tinted windows, according to a statement from the Israel Police. A Border Police bomb disposal unit called to the scene identified it as a boom-mobile before "neutralizing the vehicle," police said.

According to the Binyamin Regional Council, where Ateret is located, the car contained two gas canisters that were connected to a detonation mechanism, which was neutralized by the bomb disposal unit.

Israel Ganz, the chairman of the Yesha settlement council, called the thwarted attack "a huge miracle." He called on security forces to carry out a large-scale operation in the region, which covers a wide swath of the West Bank around Ramallah, and to "raze the terror infrastructure to the ground."

Army Radio reported later on Monday afternoon that the bombs were taken to a nearby hill and went kaboom!. Ateret’s residents, who had been told not to go out, were subsequently told it was safe to leave the settlement.

On Sunday, three Israeli coppers were rubbed out by a Paleostinian gunman near the Paleostinian city of Tarqumiyah.

Two days before that, two boom-mobiles went kaboom! near settlements in the southern West Bank, moderately wounding an IDF soldier and lightly wounding two others. Hamas took responsibility for the dual boom-mobileing attack Monday and said that the two terrorists, who were killed by troops at the scene, were members of the group. Both were from Hebron.

In a speech in Istanbul last week, former Hamas head Khaled Mashaal called for the resumption of suicide kabooms, according to reports in Arabic media.

Hamas claims responsibility for dual car bombing in West Bank last week

[IsraelTimes] Attack in Gush Etzion on Friday came amid major counter-terror operation in territory, following attempted suicide bombing in Tel Aviv that Hamas also claimed

The Hamas terror group claimed responsibility on Monday for twin car bombing in the southern West Bank days earlier, on the heels of a call from a top official in the terror group to resume suicide bombings.

In a statement, Hamas’s military wing took “full responsibility” for the attack, which consisted of a pair of coordinated bombings.

The two terrorists responsible — identified as Hebron residents Muhammad Marqa and Zahdi Afifa, both killed by troops at the scene — were members of the group, Hamas said.

In the first incident, a car exploded at a gas station near the junction, after which troops shot the terrorist inside the vehicle.

In the second incident, which occurred about 20 minutes later, a terrorist breached the nearby Karmei Tzur settlement before being shot dead, after which the car he had been in exploded inside the community.

At the gas station, a soldier was moderately wounded and a reservist officer who is the head of a local security team was lightly hurt, likely as a result of friendly fire. The two were taken to a hospital.

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