Armed Hamas movement militants take part in a rally to denounce the killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army in West Bank and to support Palestinians in Israeli jails, in Beit Lahia in the northern of Gaza Strip, on March 10, 2023.
Published November 14, 2023
While it is widely known that Iran provides financial and military support to Hamas, Israeli officials and some former US intelligence officials say the document is evidence that in the run up to the October 7 attack on southern Israel, Iran was seeking to provide technical training that would help Hamas produce its own weaponry.
The Israeli government declined to comment on the document, though sources in the government confirmed its authenticity on background.
“This example is another piece in an elaborate puzzle of a deep infrastructure of building, supporting, financing and training terror proxies by the Iranian regime around the globe and specifically in the Gaza strip,” one Israeli official said.
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RELATED: U.S. investigating whether Iran gave advanced training to Hamas militants
Current and former U.S. officials say decades of Iranian arms, funding and training made the worst terrorist attack on Israel in decades possible.
Palestinian fighters from the armed wing of Hamas parade in front of an Israeli military site near the border in the Gaza Strip on July 19.
Published November 10, 2023
American officials are investigating whether some of the Hamas militants who carried out the unprecedented attack on Israel received advanced training from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to current and former U.S. officials.
They are also examining whether Hamas used recent Palestinian protests along the Gaza border fence as cover to place explosives that were later used to breach the Israeli barrier. The advanced training and placement of explosives, if confirmed, would be the latest example of the decades of support Iran has provided to Hamas.
The attack, which was far more sophisticated than past Hamas operations, would not have been possible without the funding, weapons and training Iran has supplied to the militant group, current and former U.S. officials say.
“Hamas could not be a fraction of the group that it is — neither a political, social or religious entity nor a terrorist and militant entity — without Iran’s financial support, provision of weapons and training,” said Matthew Levitt, a former senior official in the Treasury and State departments who focused on counterterrorism.
At a White House news conference Tuesday, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Iran was “complicit” in the attack, which killed more than 1,000 Israelis. An estimated 150 Israelis and an unknown number of U.S. citizens were also taken hostage.
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SOURCE: www.nbcnews.com
RELATED: Exclusive: Found Document Suggests Iran Sought To Help Hamas Make Its Own Weapons Ahead Of Attack, Sources Say
Published November 14, 2023
A document recovered from a computer found inside a Hamas pickup truck outside Gaza, obtained by CNN from Israeli officials, shows a Hamas military commander requesting a scholarship for Hamas operatives to study engineering, physics and technology at universities in Iran.
While it is widely known that Iran provides financial and military support to Hamas, Israeli officials and some former US intelligence officials say the document is evidence that in the run up to the October 7 attack on southern Israel, Iran was seeking to provide technical training that would help Hamas produce its own weaponry. The Israeli government declined to comment on the document, though sources in the government confirmed its authenticity on background.
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SOURCE: www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com
