1️⃣ #ThePalestineFiles : peaking into the abyss, the #Hamas terrorist organization story.
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#Khaled_homoud_AlShareef #politics #Palestine #terrorism
2️⃣ Introduction into Hamas and it's history :
Hamas was established in 1987, it has its origins in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood , which had been active in the Gaza since the 1950s and gained influence through a network of mosques and various charitable and social organizations.
Hamas was established in 1987, it has its origins in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood , which had been active in the Gaza since the 1950s and gained influence through a network of mosques and various charitable and social organizations.
3️⃣ In the 1980s the Muslim Brotherhood emerged as a powerful political factor, challenging the influence of the left leaning socialist PanArab PLO, in 1987 the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine adopted a more nationalist and activist line under the name of Hamas.
4️⃣ The Islamist benefits were great, but none was greater than Ahmed Yassin, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, who had also formed the Islamist group Mujama al-Islamiya, a charity recognized by Israel in 1979.
5️⃣ Segev who represents the failure of the Israeli government to address and assess security red flags used Hamas as a balancing factor against the PLO, he even provided a platform for the Islamist Hamas to grow even stronger
6️⃣ Segev said, "Fatah was our main enemy" , Hamas frequently attacked secular and leftist Palestinian movements, including Fatah, but the Israeli military avoided getting involved in those quarrels as the Israeli government at the time saw it as a benefiting series of events .
7️⃣ In 1984 the Israeli army received intelligence that Yassin's followers were collecting arms in Gaza. Israeli troops raided mosques and found a cache of weapons.
8️⃣ When Yassin was arrested, he told his interrogators the weapons were meant to be used against secular Palestinians, not Israel.
The terrorist group leader was released a year later and was allowed to continue to expand Hamas influence in Gaza.
The terrorist group leader was released a year later and was allowed to continue to expand Hamas influence in Gaza.
9️⃣ Around the time of Yassin's arrest, Avner Cohen, an Israeli religious affairs official, sent a report to senior military officers and civilian leadership in Gaza advising them of the dangers of the Islamic movement, but this report and similar ones were ignored.
🔟 Former military intelligence officer Shalom Harari said the warnings were ignored out of neglect, not a desire to fortify the Islamists: "Israel never financed Hamas. Israel never armed Hamas" but Israeli government allowed Hamas to be armed and allowed it to grow .
1️⃣1️⃣ 1987 The founding of Hamas, rising from the shadows :
In 1987, several Palestinians were killed in a traffic accident involving an Israeli driver, Hamas used the events and instigated the events that followed
In 1987, several Palestinians were killed in a traffic accident involving an Israeli driver, Hamas used the events and instigated the events that followed
1️⃣2️⃣ As the Israeli military responded to the uprisings with brutality that Hamas used means to make the already explosive situation an even worse one as Palestinian uprising against broke out in the West Bank and Gaza, giving a surge in the popularity of Yassin.
1️⃣3️⃣ Yassin and six other Palestinians didn't miss the opportunity and officially founded Hamas as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. The new group was supported by Brotherhood affiliated charities and social institutions that had already gained a strong foothold in Gaza .
1️⃣4️⃣ The acronym "Hamas" first appeared in 1987 in a leaflet that accused the Israeli intelligence services of undermining the moral fiber of Palestinian youth as part of Mossad's recruitment of what Hamas termed "collaborators."
1️⃣5️⃣ Nonetheless, Israeli military and intelligence was still suspiciously focused on Fatah, and continued to maintain contacts with Gaza Islamic activists.
1️⃣6️⃣ Numerous Islamist leaders, including senior Hamas founder Mahmoud Zahar, met with Yitzhak Rabin as part of "regular consultations" between Israeli officials and Palestinians not linked to the PLO "I.E Hamas" .
1️⃣7️⃣ Hamas carried out its first attack against Israel in 1989, abducting and killing two soldiers. The Israel Defense Forces immediately arrested Yassin and sentenced him to life in prison.
1️⃣8️⃣ In a comical, ironic turn of events, Israeli government deported 400 Hamas members , including Zahar, to South Lebanon, which at the time was occupied by Israel at the time , literally giving Hamas all the means of building a relationship with Hezbollah.
1️⃣9️⃣ From 1987 to 1991, Hamas started to turn Gaza into a mini version of the Khomeinist Iran, enforcement the hijab alongside other examples of extreme fundamentalist measures were implemented , including insisting women stay at home be segregated from men
2️⃣0️⃣ and the promotion of polygamy. In the course of this campaign women who chose not to wear the hijab were verbally and physically abused , effectively turning Gaza into another Khomeinist Iran under the watching gaze of the Mossad and Israeli government .
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