HAMAS

On October 7, 2023, the world watched in horror as Hamas, the Islamist militant movement that rules the Gaza Strip, launched a massive surprise attack on southern Israel. The attack left 1,400 dead and 253 hostages. The Hamas terrorists went berserk, aided by the drugs they were on. As journalist Jotam Confino put it in an interview with Piers Morgan on Uncensored, they were like “ISIS on steroids.”

The origins of Hamas.

Hamas's roots can be traced back to the late 1960s, when Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian cleric who had devoted his early life to Islamic scholarship in Cairo, became a spiritual activist in the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Yassin's activities centered on preaching and performing charitable work in the West Bank and Gaza. Yassin established Hamas as the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza. Its original purpose was to counter the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), another organization that posed a significant threat to the Brotherhood's support base due to its involvement in violent resistance to Israel. During the first intifada in 1987, Yassin transformed his Islamic organization into a new body called Hamas, an acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement. In 1988, Hamas published its charter, which explicitly called for the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic society in historic Palestine.

Hamas' path to a billion-dollar empire.

In 2023, Forbes Israel revealed that Hamas is the second richest terrorist group in the world, with an astonishing financial power of around $ 1 billion . The question is how a group that began as a charity became a global financial powerhouse with a taste for death. Hamas’s network of wealth extends to the dark corners of the world. The ideology of martyrdom and its glory has successfully infiltrated the minds and structures of the people of Gaza. They have amassed enormous resources through means ranging from extortion and smuggling to exploiting the Palestinian plight politically.

Gaza is Hamas.

Hamas operates not only as a militant religious regime, but also as an ideology that has created a cultural and educational institution - the kindergartens, the schools, the summer camps, the TV shows, the news. With religious wings and a military wing, no one can escape Hamas in Gaza. Hamas's growth from a local resistance movement to a multi-billion dollar death enterprise is a tale of disturbing proportions. Its continued presence poses significant challenges for the region and the international community. While it may have some local support, it is important to examine how Hamas exploits the suffering of the people it claims to represent.