The U.S. role of Hamas in annihilating Israel and avoiding the crisis in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Hamas has carried out many suicide bombs and fired tens of thousands of rockets into Israel. It also established a network of tunnels running from Gaza to Egypt to smuggle in weapons, as well as attack tunnels burrowing into Israel.
Hamas founder and spiritual leader Yassin — a paralyzed man who used a wheelchair — spent years in Israeli prisons and oversaw the establishment of Hamas’ military wing, which carried out its first suicide attack in 1993.
The U.S. State Department has designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997. The EU and other countries consider it a terrorist organization.
The group has vowed to annihilate Israel and has been responsible for many suicide bombings and other deadly attacks on civilians and Israeli soldiers.
Hamas’ leaders are Yehia Sinwar in Gaza and an exiled leader, Ibragim Haniyeh. They made the group’s leadership more aligned with Iran and Hezbollah. Since then, many of the group’s leaders relocated to Beirut.
In recent years, Israel has made peace deals with Arab countries without having to make concessions in its conflict with the Palestinians. Israel and Saudi Arabia are a bitter opponent of Hamas and the U.S. has been attempting to broker a deal.
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Its leaders say hundreds of its 40,000 fighters took part in the assault. Israel says the group has about 30,000 fighters and an arsenal of rockets, including some with a range of about 250 kilometers (155 miles), and unmanned drones.
Iran has been ruled by Shia fundamentalists since the 1979 revolution. Hezbollah was created shortly after, said Northeastern University associate professor Max Abrahms, to help export the Iranian revolution and project Iranian power in the region.
He said state sponsorship of terrorism was a risk and it increased the likelihood of Iran being attacked by Israel.
He said that he didn’t believe the Hezbollah Secretary-General would authorize a major attack against Israel without approval from the Iranians. “Whereas I don’t know that Hamas waits for Iranian authorization … although this one might have been different,” he said, referencing the surprise attack from Gaza on Saturday morning.
The relationship between Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas is called the “resistance camp” by Israeli intelligence analysts. Neomi Neumann, a former head of research for the Israeli Security Agency, said that they both share the same goal of harming Israel and creating a Muslim-run land in the Jordan River.
Neumann, now a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said despite sharing the same goal, the groups operate on different levels. Hezbollah’s fighting force is bigger than that of Hamas.
“Since 2021, Iran and [Hezbollah leader] Nasrallah have understood that Hamas is a better player than they thought. Hamas is needed in order to weaken Israel.
They realized this when Hamas tried to unify disparate groups of Palestinians, who are mostly in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, in the event of fighting with Israel in 2021, according to Neumann.
In what it says was the worst day in its history, more than 900 Israelis were killed by Hamas.
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Raisi had phone calls with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad after the attacks against Israel began.
He said there were events in Syria and Lebanon with commanders of the terror armies that surround Israel. The people associated with Hamas didn’t return requests for comment.
“Hezbollah’s response from southern Lebanon is not something that happens in a quick fashion,” said the director of the Middle East Institute at the University of London.
The fighting around the northern Israeli Border is not larger than what’s taking place in southern Israel. But the double-pronged attacks at both poles of Israel left many fearing a more widespread, regional escalation of violence.
Monday’s fighting follows rocket and drone attacks in the region on Sunday. The United Nations warned of a rapid deterioration of the security situation in Lebanon after Hezbollah and Israel fired across the border.
The Israeli military said that it killed a number of fighters in Lebanon. The Lebanese militant and political organization Hezbollah said one of its fighters was killed in Israel’s retaliation. The group called the Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed to have injured seven Israeli soldiers.
Israel launched airstrikes on southern Lebanon this week after militant groups there intensified their attacks.
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The leaders of France and Germany on Tuesday signaled that officials are still looking for evidence of Tehran’s direct involvement in the Hamas attacks. The link is irrefutable, according to analysts who were contacted by NPR.
Iran has been accused by intelligence officials in the West and the Middle East of helping Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip, who carried out an assault on Israel on Saturday.
Why would Hamas want to fight in a ground battle? Hamas is the uncontested power in Gaza, though elections have not been held since 2006. The Palestinian Authority, Fatah, the business community, civil society and family clan leaders can not challenge Hamas because they cannot compete with the strength of the terrorist organization. Despite an Israeli blockade and round-the-clock surveillance, Hamas has apparently been able to build and buy more rockets, steadily improve their range and accuracy, provide offensive combat training for its fighters and develop an intelligence network sophisticated and far-reaching enough to launch a simultaneous assault on 22 Israeli locations. Hamas surely believes it can defeat the Israelis on its home turf in a war of attrition.